When to plant a hedge
The best time to plant a hedge is when the saplings are dormant during winter, from November to March.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/managing-trees-and-woods/hedge-planting-and-maintenance/
#Plants #SolarPunkSunday #Gardens #Gardening #PlantingTimes #Hedgerows #Saplings #Planting
On a related note, @MaQuest ...
In #Thailand, a cheap bottle crate hack gives #tree #saplings a fighting chance
Ruth Kamnitzer
21 Nov 2025
Excerpt: "Elliott and colleagues had seen examples of air pruning systems while touring nurseries in Australia, and previous studies have shown that air pruning can be beneficial for a number of tropical tree species. However, in Thailand, specialized air pruning equipment has to be imported and is prohibitively expensive.
"So instead, the researchers cast around for a local solution. The answer was in plain sight.
" 'If you go to a bar in the countryside, you know, a little restaurant, out the back there’ll be a rubbish pile full of disused bottle crates,' Elliott says. 'You can [also] go down to the #recycling shop and buy them really cheaply.'
"Each bottle crate fits about 12 bags with saplings, and the structure creates a gap of 2 centimeters (nearly an inch) at the bottom. The researchers wondered if this gap would be enough to create air circulation for air pruning.
"To test the idea, they raised saplings of five native tree species using three different methods: in crates placed directly on the ground; in crates placed on wire benches (for improved air flow); and the conventional method of a polyurethane bag on the ground. They then planted the saplings in a deforested site within #PraBangKhram #WildlifeSanctuary in southern Thailand."
Return Of Wolves To Yellowstone Has Led To A Surge In Aspen Trees Unseen For 80 Years
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/return-of-wolves-to-yellowstone-has-led-to-a-surge-in-aspen-trees-unseen-for-80-years <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122941 <-- shared paper
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https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/pwZObUXR <-- shared video
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/land-mammals/reintroducing-wolves-to-yellowstone-helped-entire-ecosystem-thrive-20-year-study-finds <-- shared related technical article
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"Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young trees, and it is finally paying off for quaking aspen...."
#elk #cervuscanadensis #bison #bisonbison #wolf #wolves #canislupus #quakingaspen #populustremuloides #herd #browsing #predation #aspen #vegetation #forest #rophiccascade #yellowstone #YellowstoneNationalPark #ecosystem #restoration #natural #balance #canopy #graywolves #habitatloss #predator #saplings #growth #mature #ecology #reintroduction #survey #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #herbaceous #browsing
retro blue branches & saplings
#Photography #Retro #RetroPhoto #RetroColour #EOS #EOS90D #Nature #Environment #NorthernOntario #Trees #Saplings #Ontatio #Canada #ElliotLake #Art #MastoArt #DigitalArt
Stickwork
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty creates installations crafted from sticks and saplings that are meant to blend into their environment ... and then disappear.
#patrickdougherty #art #artist #sculptor #sculpture #installations #sticks #saplings #impermanence #environmentalsculpture #environmental #artworld #artistquote #craft #design
Stickwork
Sculptor Patrick Dougherty creates installations crafted from sticks and saplings that are meant to blend into their environment ... and then disappear.
"My job is to build a credible illusion that the viewer finds pleasurable. Part of that is to impart a sense of freedom and carefree movement to the surface. I try to build a piece that doesn’t look human-made, that suggests a more organic origin. In part, I use drawing techniques and the magic of line to lighten the sculptures and to avoid a belabored appearance."
#patrickdougherty #art #artist #sculptor #sculpture #installations #sticks #saplings #impermanence #environmentalsculpture #environmental #artworld #artistquote #craft #design
Late Autumn/Winter time gardening attempting to propagate some baby spider plants! I cut off 8 of them and put them in cups with a small amount of water and root grow hormone!!! Hope it's successful! 😁 #spiderplants #flora #indoorplants #indoorgardening #plants #houseplants #propagation #growing #saplings #spiderlings #plantlings #babyplants #growingroots #UpstateNY #winter #lateautumn #beekeepingninja
#ClimateChange is turning swaths of #California's #mountains into #ZombieForests https://phys.org/news/2023-11-climate-swaths-california-mountains-zombie.html
"These lower-elevation Sierra #conifer forests are no longer able to successfully reproduce. Conditions have become too warm and dry to support conifer #saplings."
"It's a really stark reminder of how much #climate change has already occurred, and how important it is to make sure that the amount that occurs in the future is as little as possible"
In other news, I've been gone all of Friday because my company held a charity event where 40 of us went into a deforested area of the local woods and planted 750 saplings!
(pictures taken by a friend as I was busy wearing gloves and digging holes in the muddy rainy weather!)
This four year old oak sapling produced a solitary acorn this year.
I think this is the year I'll plant it out in the garden.
Time for a tree update! All the saplings are repotted and coming along well, but it is the one I planted for my daughter which is by far and away the best!
#tree #trees #sapling #saplings #GrowingFromSeed #GrownFromSeed #sycamore #gardening #GrowMoreTrees
Sycamore Row is coming along nicely! All the saplings are now planted in individual pots. 7 have taken which I am rather pleased with. Now just need to find people with space to grow a sycamore tree…
#Trees #saplings #GrowingFromSeed #sycamore #potted #gardening #FreeToAGoodHome
I am trying to grow sycamore trees (I think… 🤞🏻) from seeds. So far, six of eight seem to be doing well! Just need to think of somewhere to plant them now…
In related news, if anyone is searching for a sycamore sapling (or 6) have I got an offer for you!
#Trees #sycamore #saplings #gardening #growingfromseed #horticulture #weneedmoretrees
Regal white pines fell'd
Undone by merciless winds -
Young saplings no more.
Mossy mama tree and all her little baby saplings.
I invite you to read my poem "Sapling"
Poem text link:
https://allpoetry.com/poem/16936164-Sapling-by-Robert-J.-Tiess
#poem #poems #poetry #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #readingcommunity #naturelovers #nature #natural #earth #trees #saplings #weathering #erosion #hydrology #water #environment #environmental #metaphors
Each autumn I collect some tree seeds (acorns, conkers, beech nuts, hazelnuts etc) and plant them hoping to grow new trees. It always makes me very happy when one of them succeeds. He's an oak shooting from one of this years acorns 🌴😀 #trees #oak #saplings #regeneration #newlife
